Spelling game



Mar. 3; 1925. 1,528,060

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Patented Mar. 3, 1925.

' UNITED "STATES,

PATENT oFFICE.

AGNES L.- JOYCE, on NEW YORK, 11.2., ASSIGNOR or ONE-HALF T CARL Kimrr AND onnnarr, 'ro OSCAR MAUTNER, BOTH or NEW YORK, N. Y.

SPELLINGI GAME.

'Applie'ation liled January 15, 1923. Serial No. 612,676.

Be it known that I, AGNES L. JoYoE, a

citizen'of the United States','-and a resident of Bronx County, in the city and State of New'York. have invented aine'w and-useful Spelling Game, of which the following is a complete specification.

My invention relates to card games and utilizes the fact that the alphabet is composed primarily ofvowels and consonants, and that various ,combinations of these vowels and consonants form words of our language.

To this end I have made a set of 26 cards, all of like size, five of which are distinguishable on their obverse or design sides, from the remaining 21 becauseof variation in design or coloring orboth. 0n the reverse sides of the five cards I-placethe five vowels, onejon each card. On the reverse of each of the remaining 21 cards I place one consonant, On each side of the letter on each card I place common words utilizing this letter, whether vowel dr' consonant.

card.

I have added an illustrative embodiment in which I showtheobverse ancbreverse of such cards. t 4

Fig. 1 shows the obverse or. designside of one consonant card. 7

Fig. 2 shows the reverse side with the Figure 3 shows'the obverse side of a vowel card. v Figure 4 shows,the reverseside of a vowel Ordinarily-I use one of each vowel cards, and one of each consonant cards. *Tlrus'this set would contain twenty-six cards. There is no reason except convenience in playing for so limiting the cards. Thus, two such decks might be shufiled together if ..=m'ore than five wanted to play:

Assume a game 1s. p

layed among I five people, using a set of twenty-six cardsf Then each player is dealt, obverse side showing, one vowel card and two consonant. cards. Then these cards are. placed, still with obverse side showing, in a line. The players then turn the cards-up snnultaneously. There are then, five players withfi e syllables, Each player in rotation solves his problem. Thus one says-F-A -C plusT I sonant letter the other having spells fact. The players failing to solve.

their problems-correctly are eliminated and omitted from subsequent dealings. The surviving player wins. The additional letter, T in this case, is simply pronounced verbally and not shown by a card. I

Thisis but one method of using the cards.

Another suggested way of playing the game is. to shuflle the cardswith the obverse sides. exposed. The vowel cards, being diswords or syllables aslan, bes, rig, tom, vux,

of. which we can obviously complete by inspection the words lane, best and tomb, thus scoring three-out of a possible .five points. 'I have many other ways of scoring and many ways in which the game may be played but this simple illustration is given to explain the principle of operation of the cards. Obviously one or'more sets of cards be used.

avmg thus described my inventlon, what I claim and what I desire to secure by United States Letters. Patent is 1. In "a game one set of cards contain-,

ing. two varieties"of the same size but distingulshable on one side each from the other because of their coloratlons and designs one variety having on its-reverse side iconon its reverse sidea vowel letter; I V

2. In a game, one set ot cards containing two varieties ofthe same'size but distingui'shable on one side each from the other because of their 'coI r'ationsand designs; one variety havmg o'n"'1ts reverse slde a consonantletter' the other having on' its reverse side a vowel letter; said letter oneach cardbeing supplemented by words and syllables involving the said letter.

In witness whereof I hereunto'subscribe my name this tenth day.of January,-1923. v

' J- AGNESL- JoYoE.

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